Since our Brussels office was set up in 1999, we have worked to make sure that EU policies include a strong focus on the fight against extreme poverty, inequalities and global injustice.

Drawing on ActionAid’s experience working with communities in Africa, Asia and the Americas, our EU office is making the voices of people living in poverty heard by policymakers in Brussels. We push for changes in EU policies that shape their life.

Women around the world are more likely to live in poverty - just because they are women. They have less access to land, education, income and decision-making – all of which keeps them poor. We put women and women’s rights at the centre of all our work.

The Financing for Development Forum, a 4-day UN meeting where participants from around the world will discuss how we, as a global community, should, can, will finance development, is in full swing. ...

75 civil society organisations, trade unions, research organisations, law firms and academics from 17 countries express their support for the French corporate duty of vigilance law and ask the French...